Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Mayor Condon released his 2014 budget proposal yesterday. His budget includes hiring 25 new police officers, restoring services at a South Hill fire station and adding $2.5 million into street maintenance. (S-R)

Physicists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert won the Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle." (The Verge)

North Korea's latest empty threat to the U.S. warns of an "unexpected horrible disaster," "disastrous consequences," and military forces who are "fully ready to promptly launch operations anytime." South Korea and the State Department agree it's bullshit. (Reuters)